Civil society

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Successive afforestation programmes undertaken in Tunisia have doubled the forest surface area in the last 50 years. A choice experiment exercise was used to estimate the social welfare associated
Civil society
Ecosystem services
Mediterranean
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Attention to social innovation and its role in sustainable development have been rising. However, the knowledge of social innovation pertaining to rural areas, including the forestry sector is lacking
Civil society
Governance
Mediterranean
Policy
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Tuning participatory processes is often insufficient to achieve transition from authoritative state to democratic and participatory forest governance due to institutional inertia and unwillingness to
Civil society
Ecosystem services
Mediterranean
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This study sheds light on civil society engagement across different Mediterranean forest settings, from public forest ownership in Greece, to private in Catalonia (Spain) and Portugal.
Civil society
Forest fires
Innovation
Mediterranean
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This article focuses on the EU and national policies that have the potential to support social Innovation in rural areas and maps possible future policy efforts in this regard. Reference: Ludvig, A
Civil society
Innovation
Policy
Rural development
Sustainability
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Although importance of participation in public decision making is widely recognized in policy sciences, there is no consensus on what its preferred role and meaning would be. In the practice of
Cities
Civil society
Forest management
Governance
Innovation
Land use
Models
Network
Policy
Public participation
Research
Sustainability
Urban forests